[4402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: advisory attribute in IRR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Sun Sep 15 21:38:41 1996
To: "Mr. Jeremy Hall" <jhall@rex.isdn.net>
Cc: marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca (Marc Slemko), nanog@merit.edu, oberman@es.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Sep 96 17:55:26 CDT."
<199609152255.RAA04030@rex.isdn.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 96 18:26:18 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
The advisory field dates back to the old NSFnet. It was used there (and later
by ANS) to determine the appropriate carrier to whom a packet would be given
after the death of the PRDB and before routing policies were well established
in the fullness of BGP4. I believe ANS stopped using this field some time ago
and we stopped worrying about it. I believe the field is as dead as ASS690
will be in a week or two (or maybe already is).
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
